Posted
by
Zonkon Friday April 22, 2005 @07:53PM
from the surreality-at-its-finest dept.

For those of you that just can't wait until Nintendogs comes out, check out the Puppy Times Newspaper by the Drinky Puppy Club. The blog covers "The Nintendogs experience as recorded by the Drinky Puppy Club, a group of videogame fans almost as lovable as the puppies they blog about." Suggested by simoniker, so blame him.

In every package, puppy of personality rich 5 dog kinds.Dog kind is various of course sex coat color character (the mischievous spoilt child et. al.).Also the room where the puppy lives with the respective package differs.

Do you live some puppy?

* The first time, when it keeps advancing communication and play, the puppy of the other package appears with every package.

After a hard day at work, nothing beats the warm welcome of a puppy running to the door when you get home. Well, almost nothing. Drinky and I had some fun last night, and I'm starting to learn what he likes. I expect I'll be able to teach him some new tricks soon. He also caught the frisbee for the first time last night... I was so happy.

But last night there was pain as well as pleasure. For some reason, I decided to enter Drinky into a Dog competition. It was quite a crazy move, considering we're still getting acquainted and all. The first stage of the contest, I had to make Drinky sit, and he could manage that without any problem. But the second part, I was asked to make him lie down. Poor Drinky hasn't learnt that properly yet. And things just went downhill from there. "Shake hands" was met with a blank stare, the judges thought Drinky was sick, and the crowd almost booed us off the stage. We walked away with 0.03 points and 3rd place in a 3 dog contest. Drinky was not pleased.

To patch things up between us, I gave him a shower with some soothing shampoo. After rinsing him down, his coat was lovely and shiny. Then I gave him some of his favourite dog biscuits and some fresh water. I let him play with the tennis ball and then we both called it a night.

...I'm speechless. Really, I am. Trying to think of something witty or insightful to say, but the above really does speak for itself...

Basically there's a forum at Gaming-Age.com. One of the mods there is Drinky Crow, a sarcastis anti-Nintendo fan if there ever was one. Smiles And Cries made a thread talking about Nintendogs and Drinky blasted it saying it's not a game and moved the thread to off-topic to be a dick. As such, Smiles And Cries got the idea to make a club about naming your dog Drinky. Hence the blog and the group was born.

You're probably right that it's a reference to Drinky Crow, but the source of that name is not some damn moderator one some semi-obscure game website.

Drinky Crow is a character from Tony Millionare's comib Maakies [maakies.com], which may still be semi-obscure, but it's a hell of a lot less obscure than Gaming-Age.com. Drinky Crow is the character on the left-hand side of the banner at the top of the page.

* The person to whom I responded thought the reference in the title of that blog was to a user called "Drinky Crow" on a website.* That user's name was a reference to Maakies, so likely the web site's title is a reference to that, and not to that user. That's what I was pointing out.

What did I accomplish? Very little. But then, so did the person I was replying to. None of this is very important, but importance has never been a requirement for posting on Slashdot.

I rsther have my Westhighland Terrier, who I adore a lot, greet me when I come home, shed fur, play with his rubber hamburger, get chased, and do what dogs do best. Be a companion, gives wet sloppy kisses on my nose, and chase squirrels and chipmunks as he should.
People who do this stuff vitually on their DS really need a life, IMHO. Oh, thats right. I'm on/. also.